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IWEG Plant Listing by Site

IWEG encourages the planting of STIF (Sydney Turpentine Iron-bark Forest) community plants and plants that provide small bird habitat.  We seek to plant "local providence" but allow seeds to be sourced from within the Sydney Basin.
 
Plant Species
Grasses and Rushes
Stout Bamboo Grass - Austrostipa ramosissima
Red Leg Grass - Bothriochloa macra
Tassel Sedge - Carex fascicularis
Knob Sedge - Carex inversa
Barbed Wire Grass - Cymbopogon refractus
Slender or Slimjim Flat Sedge - Cyperus gracilis
Blue Flax Lily - Dianella sp.
Long-hair Plume grass - Dichelachne crinita
Hedgehog Grass (or Tufted) - Echinopogon ovatus (or caespitosus)
Blady Grass - Imperata cylindrica
Common Rush - Juncus usitatus
Mat Rush - Lomandra longifolia
Weeping Grass - Microlaena stipoides
Basket Grass - Oplismenus sp.
Kangaroo Grass - Themeda triandra  (syn – australis)
 
Groundcovers and Vines
Swamp Pennywort - Centella asiatica
Scurvy Weed - Commelina cyanea
Slender Tick-trefoil - Desmodium varians
Kidney Weed - Dichondra repens
Native Geranium - Geranium homeanum
Twining Glycine - Glycine clandestine
Native sarsaparilla - Hardenbergia violacea
Climbing Guinea Flower - Hibbertia scandens
Dusky Coral Pea - Kennedia rubicunda
Wonga Wonga Vine - Pandorea pandorana
White Root - Pratia purpurascens
 
Shrubs
Sydney Golden Wattle - Acacia longifolia
Sunshine Wattle - Acacia terminalis
Unknown Wattle - Acacia (confirm when in flower)
Heath or Lantern Banksia - Banksia ericifolia
Coffee Bush - Breynia oblongifolia
Native Blackthorn - Bursaria spinosa
Common Hop Bush - Dodonaea triquerata
Pink spider grevillea - Grevillea sericea
Needle Bush - Hakea sericea
Dagger Hakea - Hakea teretifolia
Native Indigo - Indigofera australis
Tick Bush - Kunzea ambigua
Yellow Tea-tree - Leptospermum polygalifolium
Ball Honeymyrtle - Melaleuca nodosa
Prickly leafed Paperbark - Melaleuca styphelioides
Ball Everlasting, Pill Flower - Ozothamnus diosmifolius
Pomadederris - Pomaderris sp
Kangaroo Apple - Solanum aviculare
Magenta Lillypilly - Syzygium paniculatum
 
Trees
Black Sheoak - Allocasuarina littoralis
Sydney Blue Gum - Eucalyptus saligna
Blackbutt - Eucalyptus pilularis (hybrid)
Brush Box - Lophostemon confertus
Swamp Paperbark - Melaleuca quinquinervia
Turpentine - Syncarpia glomulifera

Purple plants are those identified as members of the Sydney Turpentine Iron Bark (STIF) community
 

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